TiiK Ferx I.()\ eh's CVmipaxk 



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The smooth cliff brake has a decidedly northern range, 

 growing from northern Vermont to ^Missouri, and north- 

 westward, but found rarely, if at all, in southern New 

 England. 



Dense Cliff Brake. Cri/ptnijram iiki iIciixii 



{'■-'>) Dexsj; Cliff Bh.\ke 

 CriijAofirdnnnu ilciisa. Pelhica dciisd 



Modern botanists are inclined to jjlacc the dense cliff 

 brake and the slender cliff brake under the genus Cri/p- 

 togrdmma, which is so nearly like Fellaea that one hesitates 

 to choose Itetween them. The word Criiptoijruinma means 



